Professor Dustmann and Dr Otten are coauthors in the first report in CEPR's Monitoring International Integration series, Europe's Trust Deficit: Causes and Remedies. They analyse the roots of the decline in trust in both national and European political institutions, as reflected in the rise of populist politics.

External Research Fellow

Benjamin Elsner is a Senior Research Associate at IZA, and the Deputy Director of IZA’s Migration Area. His research focuses on migration, labor economics, and economics of education. In migration, he is particularly interested in the impact of migration on the sending countries, and the global welfare effects of high-skilled migration. His research has been published in outlets such as the Journal of International Economics or the Journal of Population Economics. Ben holds a PhD in economics from Trinity College Dublin and a Diplom (M.A.) from the University of Regensburg/Germany.